Summary, Analysis & Review of James Kouzes’s & Barry Posner’s The Leadership Challenge

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The Leadership Challenge by James Kouzes and Barry Posner takes a close look at the factors that contribute to strong leadership in a variety of fields. In their research, Kouzes and Posner found that there are five practices that leaders commonly list as key to moments when they were effective leaders. Central to every leader’s success is credibility, which is related to the characteristics that followers seek in their leaders. These include honesty, a focus on the long term, competence, and the ability to inspire others.

The first practice is for leaders to demonstrate ideal behavior for the team. They can do so by learning how to express the right values to the team and how to gain the team’s approval of those values. Leaders should visibly uphold these values in both word and deed, then reinforce shared values in a variety of ways….

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• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Nov 27, 2016
• ISBN: 9781683786092

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With Instaread, you can get the key takeaways, summary and analysis of a book in 15 minutes. We read every chapter, identify the key takeaways and analyze them for your convenience.

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Overview

The Leadership Challenge by James Kouzes and Barry Posner takes a close look at the factors that contribute to strong leadership in a variety of fields. In their research, Kouzes and Posner found that there are five practices that leaders commonly list as key to moments when they were effective leaders. Central to every leader’s success is credibility, which is related to the characteristics that followers seek in their leaders. These include honesty, a focus on the long term, competence, and the ability to inspire others.

The first practice is for leaders to demonstrate ideal behavior for the team. They can do so by learning how to express the right values to the team and how to gain the team’s approval of those values. Leaders should visibly uphold these values in both word and deed, then reinforce shared values in a variety of ways.

The second practice is to create an inspiring vision for the team to want to achieve. Leaders must first examine every possibility for the team’s goals and strategy. Then they need to communicate the resulting vision within the framework of the team’s values. Team engagement depends on a leader’s ability to make the vision seem achievable and desirable.

The third practice is for leaders to innovate on the systems that the team uses. They should seek new ideas through unfamiliar challenges or by researching the ideas of team members and competitors. Most importantly, these ideas should